Idea Validation: Time saving oriented food planner
Hey
So I usually don't have too much time to organize myself, and I eat very bad because of it, one of the biggest problems i have when i try to cook for a week, is that i expend A LOT of time cooking and i don't know how to organize myself in the kitchen
So i investigated some food planing apps, but i didn't find a time focused one.
I think i could create one which organize your food week, so you only need to cook one day a week, and the app can optimize the cooking session so you expend less time, it could also track the food inventory in your freezer
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I'm 100% sharing this problem with every single atom of me.
Cooking healthy/organic takes an insane amt of time yet there's no real alternative for me! (Not many organic take away choices, not to my taste, too expensive etc.)
But between building a product (https://apparent.today), raising a 1-yo kiddo and trying to juggle chores, I grieve for my time that goes to cooking and cleaning the kitchen.
So please, invent a new eating/food prep system! A way to cook just once a week, but have enough variety and freshness the whole week with min. dirty dishes.
We've tried conserving cooked meal (goes tasteless in no time), freezing ingredients (takes a lot of time to assemble still), and other things but still, cooking everyday seems to be the only option. (With a one year old who I want to introduce healthy eating habits too). Help!
So cool to see i'm not the only one having this problem!
A few months ago i worked in a startup, we developed a plant based food app, and we designed and implemented a "batch cooking" algorithm, unluckily the company went nuts... but i learnt a lot from it and i still have the nutritionists contact, so i will think about this
Thanks for your feedback!
Hey, I'm currently working on creating a plant-based meal planner, out of necessity as I've been struggling with this myself for years. I started a construction company in 2017 and that has been taking up 10-12 hours a day of my time so eating well and training became a nightmare. I'm looking to make a switch from this business as my health is more important and decided to start building a meal planner, the only downfall is I have minimal technical skills and I work mostly on the design, business and nutrition part which leaves me to hire developers.
Oh wow, somehow I missed this, sorry
I already started to work on this, maybe we can talk about this a bit, drop me a DM if you want on Twitter
https://twitter.com/pixodev
You're welcome!
Hey, I started this a few weeks ago, but now I decided to "build it in public", in case you want to keep track of it or suggest me some feedback
https://pixo.sh/building-a-flutter-app-in-public-from-zero-to-stores-pammy/
This is so cool! Following now. Have fun with the journey and let's discuss along the way!